Recent reviews by Magpie

Please describe what you liked or disliked about this product

Overall fun game

Completely dead and overpriced.

Rather buy Winrar

This was how i came out as gay to my parents would play again

Making for badge but good game

Still playing it now but overall a fun game.

Pros
- Nice graphics
- Did not have a day 1 patch or game breaking bugs (very rare for modern games)
- Enjoyed the documentary style cinema would love to see more like that
- variety in faction textures, skins and mechanics
- well balanced A.I.
- Has a version for poor people like myself who cant afford anything better than a toaster

Cons
- feels lacking in content (story, technology and factions)
- Skirmish not very customizable (random option for map, factions would be nice)
- 200 population max (this could be a con or pro depending on person)
- Unit creation feels slow when defending (can counter with 8+ military buildings)
- A.I. feels a little disabled (Horses running circles around a group or solders instead of attacking for 5 seconds)

Overall it seems the developers really tried with this. It is a great game but could be better I would enjoy seeing this game after a year and see whats changed. If you are expecting AoE2 this is not it this is a game in the series. only have had one crash at 40 hours. The only bug i encountered was not been able to link my Xbox account to the game but this is getting fixed.

Good

Nice

Good game worth the $40 would avoid multiplayer with randoms